OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers	75
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland	54
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient	48
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires	41
Special issue editorial team	35
Understanding variability in heat yields of wet sclerophyll forest fuels	32
The missing wind in wildfire science	31
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements	30
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia	29
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public	28
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression	24
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	24
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach	23
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia	22
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour	22
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume	22
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States	22
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning	22
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia	22
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk	21
LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE	21
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold	20
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada	19
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios	18
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†	18

Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation	18
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger	18
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds	17
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach	17
Comprehensive methodology for tracking burning firebrands in a vertical wind tunnel using multi-view video analysis	17
Probabilistic prediction of post-fire debris-flow runout and implications for prefire assessments of post-fire hazards	17
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	16
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents	16
Containment lines, PODs and suppression success: a case study of the 2021 Schneider Springs Fire	16
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2†	16
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	16
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments	16
Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions	15
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation†	15
Addressing firefighter concerns: unraveling the complexities of bushfire smoke composition and toxicity	15
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement	15
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study	15
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios	15
Table of Contents	14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland	14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)	14
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management	14
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour	14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)	14
Restoring fire management to Australian deserts: progress after a decade of burning	14
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition	13
Incorporating airborne LiDAR into reliable and scalable garden wildfire hazard assessments at the wildland–urban interface	13
Table of Contents	13
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†	13
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)	13
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires	13
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021	13
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data	13
Can the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS)-1978 of the United States be effective in other regions? Israel as a case study	12
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands	12
Burned vegetation recovery trajectory and its driving factors using satellite remote-sensing datasets in the Great Xing’An forest region of Inner Mongolia	12
Risk perceptions after wildfires: insights from Bijie, China and comparisons with other countries	12
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems	12
Vegetation flammability contributes to alternative stable states in arid Australia	12
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia	12
Table of Contents	12
Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?	12
Effect of moisture content and canopy height on flammability of gorse (Ulex europaeus) shrubs measured in a large-scale oxygen consumption calorimeter	12
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area	11
Developing an impact index for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System: predicting potential structure loss from wildfires	11
Offsetting the noise: a framework for applying phenological offset corrections in remotely sensed burn severity assessments	11
Assessing the effectiveness of prescribed burning in limiting the spread of future wildfires	11
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	11
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios	11
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†	11

Corrigendum to : Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments	11
Detecting burnt severity and vegetation regrowth classes using a change vector analysis approach: a case study in the southern part of Sumatra, Indonesia	11
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia	10
Assessing soil heating beneath prescribed burns undertaken by teams according to the first UK vegetation fire standards	10
From forecast skill to economic value: sub-hourly wildfire potential forecasting across Australian regions	10
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	10
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables	10
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV7	9
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update	9
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?	9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†	9
Empirical modelling of surface fire rate of spread in Pinus koraiensis plantations – a laboratory simulation study	9
A review of carbon dynamics and REDD+ projects in the Miombo Ecoregion, Africa: opportunities and challenges	9
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers	9
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why	9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed	9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii Rupr.) forest that experienced a mixed-severity wildfire	9
Impact of wildfire smoke, heat stress and sleep deprivation on the brain health of wildland firefighters	9
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems	9
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season	9
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!	9
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands	9
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm	8
Coupling duff development with tree litter and downed fuel inputs, decomposition and fire consumption in a long-term prescribed fire experiment in Florida	8
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region	8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review	8
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires	8
Table of Contents	8
Assessing the suppression difficulty of wildland fires for initial attack response	8
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions	8
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants	8
Causal Analysis of Fire Regime Drivers in California	8
Fire and climate: the multiplicative impacts of climates changing	8
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework	8
Fatigue in wildland firefighting: relationships between sleep, shift characteristics, and cognitive function	7
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning	7
Table of Contents	7
A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research	7
A note on fire weather indices	7
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem	7
Predicting immediate and delayed fire-induced mortality of Pinus monticola and Pseudotsuga menziesii saplings using a pyro-ecophysiology fire severity approach	7
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia	7
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia	7
Table of Contents	7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	7
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap	7
Characterizing fire history on military land using machine learning and landsat imagery	7
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy	7
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations	7
Three fuel models for predicting urban fire spread – a stopgap for emergency management in the US	7
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico	7
Economic efficiency of fuel treatments in western US forests: a methodological framework	7
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions	7
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene	7